telepresence VS Dokku

I trialled Telepresence[0] for my company 2 or 3 years ago, that does this sort of thing very slickly. It didn't quite work for us back then, I forget why, but I imagine it's come along a way since then.

[0] https://www.telepresence.io

How does this compare to Telepresence?

seems to be very similar to https://www.telepresence.io

If they're web services you work on, you might try https://www.telepresence.io/ (Requires something to be installed in the cluster though, easily done).

Depending on the context, the type of code you do, you may want to also look into the sister protocol to LSP, DAP—debug adaptor protocol. It really depends on your context whether local dev, dev against a remote server, and if the latter whether you run under GCP and thus have the “Snapshot Debugger”, or under Kubernetes with something like Ambassadar/Emissary and thus can run Telepresence, whether you do local or remote Docker and thus most IDEs don't necessarily magically work especially if the containers are competently locked down, etc.

If you're on Kubernetes remotely, Telepresence [0] might be worth a look.

[0] https://www.telepresence.io

Sounds Like Telepresence (https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence) which intercepts traffic to a service on the cluster and directs it to your local environment.

This seems to be very similar to Telepresence, which I just couldn't get to work for us.

What the difference with okteto and telepresence ?

When I came across Coolify, I thought of giving it a try. I am aware of Dokku, but I never really tried it because it doesn't have a UI. I work primarily as a UI developer, so having a nice UI to work with is a plus for me.

I run all my projects on Dokku. It’s a sweet spot for me between a barebones VPS with Docker Compose and something a lot more complicated like k8s. Dokku comes with a bunch of solid plugins for databases that handle backups and such. Zero downtime deploys, TLS cert management, reverse proxies, all out of the box. It’s simple enough to understand in a weekend and has been quietly maintained for many years. The only downside is it’s meant mostly for single server deployments, but I’ve never needed another server so far.

https://dokku.com/

Yeah there are a bunch of selfhostable things:

Caprover (https://caprover.com/)

Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku)

But people still choose Netlify and Vercel for ease of use I think.

Maybe we need something that's just Netlify. The closest I've seen to the "right" UX is Ness:

https://ness.sh

The modern iteration of these tools has taken the developer experience learnings from the Platform as a Service (PaaS) category, and will bring them to your own VM, giving you your own personal PaaS. Example of this include Dokku, Coolify, Caprover, Cloud66 and many more!

Based on the fact that your ideal is to have a similar experience to heroku than managing your own server setting up reverse proxies take a look at these options:

1) https://dokku.com - lets you turn your light sail instance basically into heroku

2) https://render.com

3) https://fly.io

4) If you have aws credits this is their heroku equivalent: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk

above is not what I do but would be the options I would pursue if I understand your preference and requirement correctly.

All in all, I really recommend trying out Dokku if you are a developer interested in hosting your own projects. It makes it super easy to get everything you need to get up and running without having to worry about the specifics. And the price is impossible to beat!

The installation instructions are on the frontpage of our site. Thats basically all you need to do to install Dokku. As far as using it, we have a simplified tutorial here.

Dokku is a lightweight and open-source PaaS platform that simplifies application deployment by leveraging Docker. With Dokku, developers can easily push their applications using Git, allowing Dokku to build and run them in isolated containers. Its CLI-only approach and plugin architecture make it highly extensible. Dokku's modular plugins enable features like database integration, Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and automated Slack notifications, giving developers flexibility and control over their PaaS environment.

Also https://dokku.com/